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Elmwood Park, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Elmwood Park Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53405. The Survey maps it on the Racine South quadrangle. 510 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Elmwood Park within Racine County

Population over time

2 figures

Elmwood Park grew from 497 to 510 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010497
2020510+13 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

29 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning6
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203640
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184317
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184175
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources183671
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182533
10 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806005
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20317
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elmwood Park: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmwood Park in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindElmwood Park$8,000Scattered tree limbs and trees down throughout Elmwood Park. Some damage to the siding of a home.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindElmwood Park$7,000Sporadic trees and branches down. Power lines down as well.
March 2026HailElmwood Park-no account filed
April 2026HailElmwood Park-no account filed
April 2023HailElmwood Park-no account filed
March 2016HailElmwood Park-no account filed
May 2004HailElmwood Park-no account filed
May 2004HailElmwood Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mount Pleasant1.8 miles15
Waxdale3.0 miles16
Racine3.1 miles15
Sturtevant3.8 miles16
Ives5.4 miles16
North Bay5.5 miles16
Franksville6.7 miles17
Oakdale Estates6.9 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Elmwood ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2223879The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1584498. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.